Installation Manual

Intel® Optane™ Solid State Drive 900P Series
October 2017 Installation Guide
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4.2.1 USB 3.0 Driver Inject
Note: USB 3.0 drivers are backward compatible with USB 2.0.
Intel recommends using the DISM commands within the Command Prompt
For the GUI method, you can use applications such as Intel’s Windows 7* USB 3.0 Creator Utility:
(https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25476/Windows-7-USB-3-0-Creator- Utility?product=89190)
Using the DISM commands, the provided USB drivers must be injected into the windows 7 ISO image. The following
steps are vital in order to see the NVMe driver directories on the USB install key.
1. Create a temporary working directory, such as C:\Win7USB
2. In your working directory, create two sub-directories called “USBDriver” and “Mount”
3. Extract your USB driver files into your “USBDriver” subdirectory
4. From your Windows 7 install key , copy the ”install.wim” and “boot.wim” files from the “sources”
directory on your install key to the working directory C:\Win7USB.
5. Open a command prompt as administrator, and change to your working directory.
For Example: cd C:\Win7USB
6. Based on the version of Windows 7 you have available, determine which index number to modify
Choose the index that matches the Windows 7 version you have. To determine the index, run the
following command:
dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile:install.wim
To modify “boot.wim” after modifying “install.wim” run the following command and follow
subsequent steps:
dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile:boot.wim
Using index 3 for this example: